Perfume-vending machine



GfH. EGBERT. PERFUME VE ND|NG MACHINE. AFPLICATIOH FILED NOV.26, 1918.

1,355,456. Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

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PERFUME VENDING MACHINE. APPLICATION min NOV-26. I918.

1,355,456. Patented 0ct.12,1920.

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Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

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' UNITED STATES GEORGE H. EGBERT, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

PERFUME-VENDING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

Application filed November 26, 1918. Serial No. 264,262.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE H. EGBERT, a citizen of the United tates, residing at lnvansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Perfume- Vending Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to check controlled apparatus for delivering fluid, and more especially to check connectors between reciprocating and turning parts; and the object of the same is to produce an improved coin-operated mechanism for a perfume vender wherein the operator selects his perfume and inserts the coin before he can actuate the machine.

The primary object of the invention is to simplify the check-controlled mechanism to an extent wherein the active parts thereof need not be duplicated although the machine embodies a number of venders or containers from which the user can select. By accomplishing this object the cost of construction is reduced.

Another object is to provide means whereby the owner can set the machine to regulate the amount of fluid delivered. Another object is to improve the check actuatingmechanism itself.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following specification and claims. and attention is invited to the drawings, whereins Figure 1 is a plan view;

Fig. 2 a side view; Fig. 3 an enlarged vertical section, illustrating the check-controlled mechanism in side elevation;

Fig. 4; astill further enlarged detailed section of the parts which the coin connects Fig. 5 an elevation of these parts; Fig. 6 an inverted perspective detail of the cover, so called.

I have shown and will describe my inven-' tion as adapted for the delivery of perfume, although of course it is capable of other uses, and I do not wish to be limited in this respect. Upstanding from the center of a base 1 is a post 2 threaded at the point 3 where a pump cylinder 4 is rigidly supported thereon and continued above. said point where the post is surrounded by a spring 5 sustaining a plunger or piston 6 mounted within the cylinder for ejecting air therefrom, The piston rod 7 is hollow and slidably mounted on the upper end or the smooth portion of the post, being provided with a handle or knob 8 at its upper extremity. A cap 9 closes the top of the cylinder, and a nut 10 adjustable on the plunger 7 limits its descent and therefore limits the amount of air which can be forced out of the cylinder by a downward movement of the knob. This much of my device constitutes the air pump.

Mounted on balls 11 is a revolving base 12 overlying the fixed base and surrounding the post 2, and the base 12 carries a pan 18 which underlies the pump cylinder and extends quite some distance beyond it, supporting around its periphery a number of containers 1d with screw caps 15 and each containing a perfume bottle 16 having an atomizer 17 and a nozzle 18 as usual, while the number 19 designates the airinlet for actuating the atomizer and driving a spray of perfume out the nozzle. As seen in Fig. 1 there are a number of these containers and bottles mounted around the edge of the pan and they will be appropriately labeled to indicate the perfumes they contain. It is obvious that when the outlet from the pump cylinder is brought into line with the air inlet to any bottle, and the pump actuated, the perfume will be delivered. It is the purpose of the present invention to con trol this action by the insertion of a coin, and it will be clear from what has been said that instead of delivering the prefume, the blast of air might deliver or vend something else. A

All the air inlet pipes, 19 open through a band or ring 20 carried on the pan 13, and an air outlet 29 from the lower portion of the pump cylinder 4 is adapted to be brought successively into alinement with them. In this outlet is a valve 21 set so as to be normally closed and having a crank 22 on its stem. A link, 23 connects this crank with a rod 24 slidably mounted in: guides 25 on the wall of the cylinder 47.

The rod has a cross bar 26 and above the cross bar it supports the part 27 i of .the coin connector, this part standing oblique as best seen in Fig. 4:. A coin chute 28 is provided inside the several containers and incloses the entire mechanism at the center. It will be obvious fromwhat has been said that the parts 27 and the rod 24 carried thereby must be raised toopen the valve 21.

The coacting part 37 is a plate carried by and within a loop 36. on another upright rod 34 moving in guides 35.011 the cylinder 4 and at its lower portion this element is forked as shown at 33, the forks standing over'and normally engaging the cross bar 26 whereby the entire rod 24 will be pushed down when the upper rod 34 is pushed down, and thetvalveclosed. The upper rod 34 is connected with a rock lever 38 whose down ward movement is limited by a stop 39. It will be obvious that when. the upper rod is raised, while acoin connects the two parts 27 and 37, the lower part will be raised. However, when there is no coin connecting the parts, it is obvious the upper rod is not connected to the lower bar.

A rack bar 4liscarried by the plunger 7 inside the hood 30 and a spring tongue 48 on the inner end of the lever 38 coacts therewith. According as the nut is set, the

plunger descends when depressed by the knob 8, and therefore the number of teeth which may pass ,over the spring tongue can be regulated by the owner. The adjustment of the nut also regulates the volume of air which ,can be delivered out the outlets and therefore the amount of, perfume which can be delivered from the selected nozzle. The part3? described as a late as at 46 is complemented by a cover 4 pivotally mounted Over the plate as at 46 and converting this ,part into a box when the cover lies upon the plate as seen in full lines in ig. ,4. V A finger 45 projecting from the cover enga 'es a yieldable trip 24 on the wall of the cylinder when the cover rises,

and when it descends again the trip lifts the part 27. In order to allow the purchaser to know when the device is in condition for use, that is whenxthe'chute 28 registers with the upper part of the coin container 27 the base 1 is provided with an indicator 55 secured in position thereon in vertical saline- .ment with the fined position of the outlet chaser selects the desired perfume he turns 2 the base and the containers move'simulta' 'neous therewith until the indicator 56 beand at this time the coin chute 28 will be in 'alinement with the upper part of coin container 27, while the air inlet 19 will be registering with the valved outlet 29 as shown in Fig. 3. Then he drops his coin and it travels downward through or partly through 7 5 the-part 27 and comes to rest against the lower edge of the cover 47, spanning the gap between the two parts shown in Fig. 4. N ow, still following instructions, he depresses the knob 8 and the rack bar 41 engaging the tongue 48 swings the lever 38 on its pivot and raises the upper rod 34. This causes the rise of. the part 37 andthe coin itself causesthe rise of the part 27 and there I fore of the lower rod. The latter opens the valve 21 in a manner already described and the descent of the piston 6 ejects air through the outlet 29 and through the pipe 19 and atomizer 17 so that perfume is blown out the nozzle onto the. operator or ontohis handkerchief or clothing. 'lVhen pressure onthe knob is released, the spring 5 within the cylinder causes the restoration of parts to their normal position and in the descent of the part 37 the finger 45 lifts the cover and dumps the coin into the receiver 12 as already set forth. From'time to time,the perfume or scent within the bottles 16 will have to be renewed and the bottles themselves appropriately labeled. The hood might be a glass dome through which the operation of the contained mechanism could be witnessed. The machine will contain proper instructions for its operation, and door in the base will give access to the money.

The foregoing description and the drawings have reference to what may be considered the preferred, or approved form of my invention. It is to be understood that I may make such changes in construction 1 and arrangement and combination of parts materials, dimensions, et cetera, as may prove expedient and fall within the scope of thejappended claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Ina check controlled apparatus, the V combination with a pair of members reciprocable along a single line; of upper and lower coin-receiving parts carried by said members and standing normally end to end,

a chute for directing the coin into the upper part, a movable cover on the lower p'artfor holding the coin across both parts during the rise of said members, and means for lifting the cover and releasing the coin during the descent of said members and parts to their original positions.

2. In a check controlled apparatus, the

combination with an upper and a lower rod mounted in guides for vertical movement in alinement with each other, means for raising the upper rod manually, and mechanism actuated by the rise of the lower rod; of a cross bar at the upper end of the lower rod, a link at the lower end of the upper rod and carrying forks adapted to engage upon said cross bar when the upper rod is depressed, and a two-part coin connector whose parts stand in alinement and obliquely to the length of said rods and are respeciively carried thereby for the purpose set orth.

3. In a check controlled apparatus, the combination with an upper and a lower rod mounted in guides for vertical movement in alinement with each other, means for raising the upper rod manually, and mechanism actuated by the rise of the lower rod; of a cross bar at the upper end of the lower rod, a loop at the lower end of the upper rod and carrying forks adapted to engage upon said cross bar when the upper rod is depressed, and a coin chute;'of an obliquely disposed hol ow coin receiving part carried by the upper end of the lower rod, a plate carried within said loop of the upper rod and in line with the lower side of said part, when the forks rest on said cross bar, acover pivotally mounted on said plate and standing normally in line with the upper side of said pait whereby the two parts are adapted to hold a coin which connects them during the rise of the upper part, and means for lifting said cover on the descent of said parts for releasing the coin.

4. In check controlled apparatus, the combination with an upper and a lower rod mounted in guides for vertical movement in alinement with each other, means for raising the upper rod manually, and mechanism actuated by the rise of the lower rod; of a cross bar at the upper end of the lower rod, a loop at the lower end of the upper rod and carrying forks adapted to engage upon said cross bar when the upper rod is depressed, and a coin chute; of an obliquely disposed hollow coin-receiving part carried by the upper end of the lower rod, a plate carried within said loop of the upper rod and in line with the lower side of said part when the forks rest on said cross bar, a cover pivotally mounted on said plate and standing normally in line with the upper side of said part whereby the two parts are adapted to hold a coin which connects them during the rise of the upper part, a finger at the lower end of said cover, and an element against which said finger strikes as the upper rod descends, whereby the cover is lifted for dumping the coin, as described.

5. In a device of the character described,-

the combination of a dispensing means, an operating means for actuating the dispensing means, and a control means including a sectional rod, each section of the rod ineluding a coin receiving part, the parts bev ing contiguous to each other whereby when a coin is inserted in said parts, movement of the operating means will cause the control means to be simultaneously actuated to allow the operating means to actuate the discharge means, one coin receiving part having a movable cover thereon, a finger on the cover, and means to engage the finger to swing the cover at a predetermined time, whereby opposite movement of the control means will cause the cover to be opened to allow the coin to be discharged.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE H. EGBERT. Witnesses:

VICTOR ZIMMER, ROBERT PATTERSON. 

